Follow the UNC Press Blog for a celebration of women's histories and women historians throughout March. The following excerpt is taken from Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century by Brianna Theobold In the nineteenth century, gender relationships in Crow society, as in many North American Indigenous cultures, are better described as complementary than hierarchical. Until the federal government prohibited such activities in the 1880s, Crows celebrated men’s achievements as warriors and hunters, and they continued to value men’s qualities of bravery and leadership after settling on the reservation....